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Does Affinity Photo for iPad/iOS support Sony Pixel Shift ARQ files? Also, does Affinity Photo for Mac and Windows support Sony Pixel Shift ARQ files? If this Compatibility does not currently exist, will support be added in a future release for each platform? If so, is there a Date this ARQ functionality will be made available? Thanks for your time.

Hello
Could you please add the possibility to recognise the star rating of pictures taken and rated with Sony cameras (like the new Sony a7rIII / ILCE-7RM3)?
Please view quotes and links below to see which rating function I am referring to:
Source for 1st quote: https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/sony-a7r-iii
Source for 2nd quote: https://www.colbybrownphotography.com/getting-the-most-out-of-your-sony-a7r-iii/
Here you can see the camera rating function works (play the video at 19'54''):
(on YouTube.com, it is the video "Sony a7R III Training Tutorial" "by Tony & Chelsea Northrup)
Please tell if this will be added to the features requested list and when you will be implementing it.
Thank you!
Miss C

Hi!
I'm running Affinity Photo on Windows 7 x64. There is a problem with the ARW files of Sony A65 and A77M2.
Sigma 10-20 f3,5-5,6 lens is not correctly recognized and Tamron 17-50 f2,8 is not recognized at all, therefore automatic lens correction does not work.
As an alternative, I've tried using a dedicated PTLens program to correct lens distortion as a plugin, but it doesn't start
and Affinity Photo spontaneously shuts down. At the same time PTLens works correctly in Adobe PhotoShop and Corel PaintShop Pro.

Using Affinity Photo Version 1.6.7, Sony .ARW raw files are corrupt upon opening. Portrait oriented files have the top 10-20 pixels at the top becoming corrupt; landscape oriented files have pixels on the right hand side corrupted. DNGs made with DNG converter from the same .ARW file, open with no issue. Other programs (Adobe Photoshop 6, Adobe DNG converter, Capture One, DXO Photo Lab etc.) open the same file with no corruption. This occurs when using the Serif Labs raw engine. When switching to Apple (Core Image RAW) engine, and restarting the app, the image opens with no corruption.
I will use the Apple engine until you can fix the issue. What are the trade offs in using one engine over the other?
Thanks, Mike

Hi,
I currently don't do any processing on the move - using just my Mac desktop at home.
I have an iPad Pro and am exploring my options to get things done whilst out and about doing shoots.
My query is about my potential workflow, and if Affinity Photo can help. I currently use all Adobe apps on my desktop, but a quick look at Lightroom on the iPad doesn't seem to provide what I am looking for.
I'm a real estate photographer, and I outsource my processing due to the volume of work required. But I often get gaps in my schedule when on the road, which could help me to get my photos to the editors quicker (then waiting until I get home).
I'm using Sony A7R III (with an A7 III as a backup).
All I need to be able to do is:
1) Get the Sony RAW files from my SD card onto the iPad. I understand a lightning SD reader will be needed for that.
2) Then to review the images, and possibly on some of them scale/crop to get the best of the shot. No actual processing of colours, etc.
3) Then save/export them as DNG files onto a cloud platform (whether it be OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, whatever).
Then I can email my Editors the location of the files to pick up for processing.
I can't give them JPGs because they need to do the actual processing.
DNGs end up much smaller filesizes than Sony RAW which means easier uploading too. And they are more universally recognized (the editors don't want to work with specific raw formats like Sony)
Right now I have to wait until I get home from a day of shooting and do the above with Lightroom on my Mac. I'd love to be able to do this between shoots on the road, on the iPad.
However, none of the apps I have looked into seem to be able to export this way. It's either save back to the original RAW format - or convert to a final non-raw format such as JPG.
As I can't trial Affinity on iPad - and it's the key feature I would need - I thought I would ask here before buying.
Is this going to be possible?
Many thanks
Simon

Hello Affinity Support and Forum,
I have noticed an error with Batch processing .arw files from a Sony A7RII. When running a batch process of any size, my amount was 100 in this case, the batch converter under exposes the developed raw file. It also adds quite a bit of noise and RGB pixelation. You can see by viewing the attached images at full size blown up 330%.
The lighter image is the singular developed photo without edits, and the darker one is the batch, again with no edits.
This process is breaking my workflow as batch processing raw images into Affinity is par for the course.
I had read elsewhere that this is know and will be patched, but that was last year in October...

Recent threads such as this one by @Gregory St. Laurent have commented on the default image when a raw is loaded into the Develop Persona being too dark (or too light or ...) as compared with other programs. My experience, with my rather old Sony A55 camera, is that the default image in the Develop Persona is fine in 95% of the time, and that any tweaking needed is done in the Photo Persona. The odd 5% are those images taken under odd lighting conditions, but even with these, I will typically bracket the shots and merge in HDR.
I would be interested to hear from other uses of Sony cameras (old and new). Have you had these problems that are described elsewhere? If not, then it would seem that the default develop algorithm for ARW files is closer to what is expected as compared with CR2 or NEF files.
John

Hey everybody,
I'm using Affinity for more than 6 months now, and loving or do much thanks you !
I'm now thinking about buying a full frame camera! Sony seems to be a interesting choice now!
I'm seeing that Sony have two really similar cameras : A7RII and A7RIII ! The difference ? Mainly one, the new "pixel shift mode" on the A7RIII, which is quite impressive, but I'm not sure it's justificating the 1000 $ difference.
What's pixel shift ? Well, as I understood, it's a mode alowing you taking 4 pictures (same pics, with tripode), and combining them into one way sharper, more details !
Well, I feel that, maybe, I could but the A7RII and make my own pixel shift via affinity ! But would it work ? How would you make it work ? Would the developers need to add a new feature to make it work ?
Pixel shift is a really interesting mode, it would be so amazing if we could have the posibility to create it via the software
And it would make me save 1000 $
Please help
Thanks
Regards,
Ken.

Hi,
Can really do with some help here. Just got a Sony A7R3 not too long back. I use Mac Photos for my photo management. From Photos, I tried to edit my .ARW raw files using Affinity. However, when the file's opened in Affinity, it is converted to TIFF. When I export the RAW file out and open it directly with Affinity, it opens as RAW. Not sure if it's a bug, or I have some settings done wrongly. I had no problems with my previous camera, OMD-EM1. Thanks!

Good morning, folks
Recently, I downloaded the Affinity Photo trial for Windows as I loved the app on my iPad and wanted to see if the desktop version could replace a Photoshop CC subscription.
Unfortunately, the program opens RAW files from my new camera (Sony RX1R II) as almost all white. I see 2 images (I assume a before and live "after processing" preview) but both are all white. Is this normal behavior? On one of the images I imported, I could see *some* details, but it was mostly all white. Another image I tested last night was literally all white. Just a giant white image.
Any thoughts? If needed, I may be able to install the trial on my work laptop to get a screenshot.

I have a Sony RX1RM2 (RX1RII). I shoot Raw Compressed.
The files are 42MP and display as HDR and all white in Affinity 1.6.6.
I have included a screenshot showing a sample image in OSX 10.11.6 Finder (left) and Affinity (right).
This camera takes beautiful images unfortunately my favorite photo editor does not display images this camera takes unless they are JPG. My Canon 5D RAW files work just fine.

Hi
Just to let all proud owners of the Sony RX10 MK4 that its RAW format is supported by iOS in 11.2.5 public beta 2 and images display in Affinity Photo beautifully
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I'm having some trouble loading Sony a9 RAW files into the Affinity iPad app. Are there certain RAW files the app doesn't support? When I try and load the photo from the Photos app Affinity give the images info(name of camera, focal length, f stop, shutter speed..) but the work space in blank. I'm new to the app so I may just be missing something. Thanks for you help.

Affinity Photo will not display thumbnails of Sony ARW files when using Focus Merge. I'd like to see the thumbnails so as to determine which batch of files to select and use with Focus Merge. I'm on a Mac and Cover Flow view would help me do this. I cannot use Cover Flow to select the files because Affinity is not generating thumbnails......

Hello Guys,
A short introduction of myself as it is my first post here.
I life in germany and i am not a retouching or photography professional. I just do photography as a hobby and I am waiting for affinity photo (AP) for Windows since they announced the beta. Today I am using an old version of Adobe Photoshop Elements for retouching and Capture One 9 Pro (CO9) for Sony as my RAW Converter.
You can easily edit your Image in Affinity Photo out of your Capture One Viewer
To edit a Image from CO9 first go to your Windows explorer. Right-click on a jpeg File, open with. Choose other app and search your AP folder. You should do this with a jpeg and a tiff document. To edit a Image from CO9 in AP right click on the Picture in CO9 and choose edit with. In the following window click on Open with and browse to you AP folder. AP will start. Make your Changes in AP and Save the file. Only save not save as. Back ip CO9 right click on the image and regenerate Preview. Now you should see your retouched image. If you don’t want to browse to your AP folder every time you want to use AP from CO9 the first step in windows explorer is necessary, otherwise CO9 can’t save the settings. I have testet jpg and tif. Both works fine in this combination. I hope this will help someone.
I have the german versions of all programs installed, so I hope i have translated all step to the english version of CO9 or Windows correctly.
This was tested with Capture One 9.3.0.85 and affinity photo 1.5.0.37.
greetings GermanDennis

Out of the blue, RAW images are no longer opening the file color – completely screws to pink, purple hues. I've deleted and reinstalled the app on my computer and also cleared/reset the software – problem still persists.
General Stats on my environment:
macOS Sierra Version 10.12.1 (16B2657)
Sony A7R II firmware 3.30
Image file .ARW
Any idea why this is happening and how to fix it?

Hi there,
I'm having an issue to open a stack of Sony RAW files (.ARW by an A7 Mark II - is on the supported device list) to merge exposures. I attached a screenshot of the result.
Same appeared when I first simply was opening .ARW files. This was solved by switching the RAW Engine to Apple. Yay!
But I am still facing the problem when opening as a stack!
Any help is highly appreciated - thank you!
Cheers,
André